Orc and Barbarians chilling at the campfire

Hey, did you already responded to my question about the Rule34 of Zangef and Leomon I'm doing? If not, I need your opinion!

After three weeks, my campfire animation is done! Imagine it like a gif that loops during a lofi playlist, a moment of coziness, and relax you want to last forever.

I imagine those animations like moments in the game where you just click on details of the scene and unlock various dialogues that explain the worldbuilding, the backstory, and the characters.

Like, you click on the ginger and a dialogue unlocks.

Orc: Hey, you know, where I come from humans are way more spindly. You’re basically built like an orc.
Ginger: Mhh, are you talking about of our survival form?
Orc: Survival form?
Blonde:  If whe don’t have enough to eat during our childhood we grow in a way  slimmer shape. It’s weaker but it needs less food, so it’s better in  famine periods.
Ginger: yeah, our grand-grand-dad was a survivor. I topped him in height at age ten.
Blonde  (annoyed by his brother’s tone): Food had been scarce after the  Dragon’s Divide three centuries ago. Most of our tribe was in survival  form. Only the guards had enough food to fully grow.
Orc: So are all the humans of the inland in suvival form by default? Maybe there’s something wrong in what they eat.

Then the dialogue ends and you can click on a different object. 

Guys, it was very frustrating and satisfying at the same time making this animation, but I learned a lot of things.

1. Body hair is hot but it’s too chaotic to animate in 2D. That’s why  Zangief has a patch of fur on his chest instead of human body hair. When  cartoon characters are shaved, it’s not just because of  heteronormativity, it’s because of common sense.
2. Pressure-sensitive brushes aren’t good for animation, because they  make the “boiling line” effect even worse. This was made with a  pressure-sensitive brush, and you can tell.
3. You can have steady animation going on or detailed character design,  not both, at least not for more than a few seconds. It’s basically the  cartoon VS anime main difference. Look at how much of the runtime of  Neon Genesis Evangelion is occupied by static frames.

After that, could this animation be part of the game? Well, it can be good tracing material to make the actual animation. It’s plenty of beginner’s mistakes. Characters that seem to melt between one frame and the other and way too low frame rate.

But I’m learning and enjoying it!